An adaptive approach to learning the preferences of users in a social network using weak estimators

Journal of Information Processing Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-212

  Oommen, B John ^a,b   Yazidi, Anis ^b   Granmo, Ole Christoffer ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Time varying preferences; User's profiling; Weak es timators

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; LEGACY APPROACH; NONSTATIONARY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; STRINGENT CONSTRAINTS; TARGETED ADVERTISING; TIME VARYING; USER'S INTEREST; USER'S PROFILING; WEAK ES TIMATORS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84866789474     PISSN: 1976913X     EISSN: 2092805X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.2012.8.2.191     Document Type: Article

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